Author chronicles the obsessed, magician
The profiles Mark Singer writes for "The New Yorker" are as wry and intricate as the idiosyncratic details they contain. Singer's style is to shovel detail atop detail in restrained, intelligent prose and slowly, these seemingly inane facts accrue meaning -- ultimately, they add up to a complete person.
Similarly, Singer's stories gain significance and are best when read together. In the nine shorts collected in his newest book, "Character Studies: Encounters with the Curiously Obsessed", Singer sinks his teeth into the possessed personalities of both average and celebrated...
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